Peter Andre slams Katie Price's husband Lee Andrew's claims he's adopting their kids
Topics: Katie Price, Peter Andre, Celebrity, UK News, Reality TV
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Topics: Katie Price, Peter Andre, Celebrity, UK News, Reality TV
Katie Price's ex-husband has brutally shut down a claim made by her current beau, Lee Andrews, about their two children.
Peter Andre was forced to speak out this week after Andrews - who recently earned himself the nickname of 'Katie Price's missing husband' after supposedly being held in custody in Dubai - alleged he'd adopted former glamour model Price's five children.
Price, 48, shares son Junior, 21, and daughter Princess, 19, with the 'Mysterious Girl' singer, to whom she was married between 2005 and 2009.
She is also a single mother to her 24-year-old son, Harvey, and shares her two youngest children, Jett and Bunny, with her former flame Kieran Hayler.
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The I'm A Celebrity alum married UAE-based businessman Andrews in a surprise ceremony back in January after just weeks of knowing one another.
Since then, their relationship has been the subject of mass speculation.
He vanished back in May, insisting he'd been captured by forces in Dubai, while women at home claimed he was actually a conman planning to rinse Price.
Eventually, Andrews came out of hiding (reportedly the notorious Al-Awir jail) and, although we're all still rather in the dark as to what exactly went down, it looks as though he and Price have brushed over the baffling affair.
Over the weekend, the mystery man shared a Cameo video that a fan had requested for Father's Day, insisting he and his wife were back together and better than ever.
He also claimed to have formed a close bond with her five children.
"I haven’t got children, but we’re trying," Andrews told viewers. "I’ve adopted five of them. I love my wife, and I love her children."
While Price hasn't yet acknowledged her husband's peculiar claims, her ex, Andre, isn't prepared to let them slide.
Speaking to Metro for the star, Andre's representatives slammed Andrews' adoption allegations as 'categorically untrue', as well as 'yet another lie'.
"They haven’t even met him!" they stated.
Andre's comments come months after Price falsely claimed she was pregnant with Andrews' baby, which would have been her sixth child.
She told her husband's ex, Alana Percival, 'I'm having his baby', before filming herself flailing around a pregnancy test.
Days later, Price revealed she wasn't actually expecting, but that she and Andrews were trying for another.
"No, I’m not pregnant – but one day I will be," she said. "Hopefully, that clears up all the speculation. Just because we say we’ll have kids, [it’s because] one day I will."
The Dubai businessman, originally from Manchester, is supposed to be on an episode of Good Morning Britain alongside his wife.
When asked if Andrews got arrested at the airport, Price says: "No. You know, they just said it to me in there. So, I just said, 'Lee, apparently a British man has been detained. Can you just confirm that it's not you?' Because I obviously know it's not him.
"So, he's just done a voice note back and laughing emojis. 'No, it's not me' and a voice note. And he's just sent me pictures."
In a vlog on her YouTube channel, Price shares footage of herself calling Andrews after her GMB appearance, telling him: "None of them believe you're coming at all. The fact is, you've just got to get here and prove everyone wrong.
"They're like, 'Kate, do you know anything about this man?'"
Price says on her channel that Andrews is 'at the airport going through the border control to get his exit stamp'.
"So, he said he's 100 percent, a billion percent, coming today," she adds.
Price says she and Andrews are normally in 'constant contact' and it's 'worrying' that she can't get through to him on the phone.
"We're now wondering, as far-fetched as it is, he's a missing person," she adds. "I don't know if he's been kidnapped."
Over the weekend, Price says, 'the truth is, Lee has been missing for three days'.
"Lee was trying to get through the border near Hatta and, oh God, this is so discombobulating," she continues. "His location went off at 10:03, Wednesday night, that's the last contact anyone's had, his family and me.
"This is the third day now, obviously, he phoned me before the location went off. He's in the middle of nowhere, obviously, I'm worried."
Price adds that 'the last FaceTime call I had with him… he had ties around his hand and a hood'
"He sounded really worried and said like whispering, ‘They're coming for me now. They're coming for me. I've got to go’,” she explains.
According to The Sun, a missing person report has been lodged by his family at the British Embassy in Dubai.
"Lee is officially a missing person now," a source tells the outlet.
"Katie is in constant contact with his family and is desperately worried. And she’s mortified — she’s seen people calling it a stunt and that she must be in on it, but she’s absolutely not.
"This is such a worrying, upsetting situation."
In a lengthy expose published by The Sun, journalist Clemmie Moodie accuses Andrews of scamming her out of £1,000, as well as claiming that he is currently hiding out in Dubai.
"Lee has NOT been kidnapped; he is simply in hiding after also ghosting his devastated wife for the past six days," she claims. "He is not dead. He is not in jail. And he has not been detained."
"He is squatting in a slightly run-down villa, frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in, and is understood to be liaising with his few trusted contacts on a 'burner phone'," the report alleges.
This follows claims from numerous partners that Andrews scammed them out of money, which he denies.
Price says she hasn't spoken to Andrews since Wednesday night, telling fans in a recent YouTube update that he was attempting to leave the UAE.
"The last time I heard from him, he FaceTimed me, he had a hood on and said, ‘I've just been captured or arrested’ and had ties around his hand, not handcuffs, and said ‘they're coming back for me’," she explains.
Price denies accusations that this is a publicity stunt, calling the claims 'disgusting'.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for FCDO has given the following statement to LADbible Group: "We are supporting the family of a British man and are in contact with the local authorities."
Former Apprentice contestant Luisa Zissman, who has joined the search for Andrews, pointed out how Lee's social media appeared to have been active.
However, it seems this possible clue turned into a dead end as Price posted that she had access to her husband's Facebook account, so she was responsible for the recent activity.
"I have Lee's Facebook, it's not him on this it's me," she wrote, as the search continues.
"Lee is OK. He has not been kidnapped but he is under arrest. I don't know on what charge," his dad Peter claims to the Daily Mail. "I'm not sure where he is being held. But he will call me later today."
However, Price responds to the claims on Instagram, writing: "THIS IS FAKE NEWES [sic] LEE IS STILL MISSING ME AND HIS FAMILY KNOW WHATS GOING ON AND WORKING WITH THE AUTHORITIES INVOLVED."
Peter doubles down that his son is 'not at my house' as Andrews had been living with him before he became involved with Price.
Meanwhile, Price releases a song on Instagram, writing: "Missing my husband so much it breaks my heart knowing he is still missing so I did this song quick as words mean so much to the situation."
A source tells The Sun: "I had been messaging Lee and was getting no response.
"But on Sunday morning, my messages had gone from a single tick to a double – so that device is back on and being used. Lee has multiple phones but this is the one that is being used now."
Price tells The Sun that she had a two-minute call with him, allegedly from prison in Dubai.
“I told him how worried I had been and told him I loved him. It was very rushed, but he said the authorities out there thought he was a spy. I don’t know much more than that right now.”
Eagle-eyed fans were quick to notice that Andrews unfollowed his wife on Instagram, with him now following a grand total of 0 accounts.
After it was reported that Andrews needs £140,000 to be released from Dubai's Al Awir jail, The Sun reported that Andrews asked his wife to set up a GoFundMe campaign, which would see members of the public donating to help raise the funds for his release - despite him previously claiming to be a millionaire.
The outlet alleges that Price told her husband: "No one will do that for you, Lee, trust me. Everyone hates you."
The Sun reports that Andrews has been released from Al Awir jail.
Price flies to Dubai and is pictured leaping into Andrews' arms. The couple head to Vox Dubai, an outdoor cinema, to catch a World Cup game.
In an Instagram video, Andrews says he was 'captured by men with assault rifles' and 'taken to a black site'.
He insists: "At no point have I faced anything to do with fraud allegations or any criminal activities such as that."